Tenants Harbor doesn’t change much summer to summer, and neither does Roseledge Books. This pleases me and the browsers who were last here at least ten years ago and still recalled the Samuel Eliot Morison book they bought then. They re-found RB because the sign on the tree at the corner of Sea Street is still there with RB name, hours and arrow, though now it is a handsome new sign. (Thanks to N-M’s still nifty, but now grown-up kids and friends.) Also Roseledge Books still has books, like but also different from the one they chose earlier, books based on the sailing adventures of authors, e.g. Tony Horwitz, Tim Severin.* I love returning readers. We’re all getting older, better of course, and pokier. Maybe fussier, too. But never crabby.
*As I write this, RB has the following books by the two authors:
Horwitz, Tony. A Voyage Long and Strange
Severin, Tim. The Brendan Voyage (It almost supports my theory that Irish were here before Vikings.)
Severin, Tim. In Search of Moby Dick
Severin, Tim. In Search of Robinson Crusoe
Fig. #58. Your chair is there, the harbor,too. You have to leave tomorrow, but you want two more weeks of coastal mind-meld. Showers are probable, so you get your rain gear, put your book in a baggy, and head out. What book do you take? Roseledge Books recommends The Road to Ubar, a vicarious adventure with Nicolas Clapp as he searches for a lost city in the southern desert of Saudi Arabia.
July 24: More rain, hard driving rain. I think that tropical storm or hurricane wannabees veered up the Atlantic Coast, lost their chance to be named or to drench Minneapolis, and settled for hemming us in between rain and fronts from the west.
July 25: SUN, GLORIOUS SUN. Check the webcam, but quickly. Fog approaches across the trees to the south.